Alexandra Horowitz

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Gallup's chimps had ad-lib access to the mirror, and he was looking at behavior over many hours. These dogs had limited time to investigate [the canisters] and yet we got this result. I'd assume that if we gave them that ad-lib exposure, we'd see a lot more exploratory behaviour of the modified scent.feedback

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NEW Aug 17 2017

Smell is so distant to our experience. We're just not engaged with olfaction, so it's taken a long time to see–or even imagine–what the world might be like for non-visual creatures, and to design experiments with that in mind.feedback

I think that all of these abilities, which we mostly decline to see in nonhuman animals until they've passed our tests, are defined in a far too binary way. What we usually see is that an animal's performance lies somewhere along a spectrum of skill, and dogs are not at the zero part of that spectrum. I'd say that they have a rudimentary theory of mind–one that's not equivalent to a human adult, but that isn't an absence of thinking about one's self and others. They have, as we would suspect, some understanding of self, and some recognition of who they are as distinct from others.feedback

It's fair to say that there has not been exhaustive cross-species testing of sensitivity to different odorants. Those that have been tested often find dogs able to detect at lower quantities, and do sometimes find humans surpassing or equal to non-humans (as on amyl acetate).feedback

We never hear about all the dogs who don't act heroically – who observe the drowning child from the shore or fail to summon the authorities when their owner has a heart attack. Should they notice something highly unusual, like a house fire, and bark and bark, this could in fact help save whoever is inside the house. Their noticing is extraordinary.feedback

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